Participação social em disputa: dimensões e contrastes da assessoria técnica independente no pós-rompimento da barragem da Vale S/A em Brumadinho

Abstract

Technical Advisorship, with an independent nature, are recent experiences in Brazil that require support in their strengthening, autonomy and expansion to other affected territories as they are important tools for recognizing communities in access to fundamental rights. This dissertation analyzes the role of Independent Technical Advisorship (ATI), identifying advances and limitations in its trajectory of action within the structure of social participation and in its relationship with the Institutions of Justice, in the context of repair governance in Brumadinho. To this end, two qualitative studies were conducted based on interpretive document analysis. The first study employs the 3A³-framework of participation proposed by Hofer and Kaufmann (2023) to systematize, through documentary analysis of the Judicial Reparation Agreement (AJR), the actors, arenas, and objectives that constitute the participation structure. The second study is based on an interpretive content analysis, organizing two Commitment Agreements and two Work Plans of Aedas into categories related to ATI’s performance, such as characteristics, scope, social control, transparency, methodological coordination, funding, objectives, activities, and target audience. Together, the two studies reveal gaps and weaknesses in social participation in the reparation of the disaster, marked by centralized decision-making, limited protagonism of affected people, and the reduction of ATI’s scope and autonomy, exposing structural tensions within the governance model.